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Society has forgotten how to cook, people want to microwave chicken nuggets and pizzas, and wash it down with sugary drinks, and add in the crazy addictive snac

Society has forgotten how to cook, people want to microwave chicken nuggets and pizzas, and wash it down with sugary drinks, and add in the crazy addictive snacks and sweets we have access to. This just isn't the case. To be able to cook, you need some things. You realistically need electricity and refrigeration - without this, cooking takes a lot more time and a lot more trips to the store. You need pots and pans and the ability to clean, and housing that has space to cook. Some specialty things have a lot of utility: A large freezer lets you prep things and/or store the frozen vegetables. Beans cook faster in a pressure cooker. And most of all, you need time. Richer folks can use some of their money to spend less time on mundane things, and poor people generally spend more time just trying to live. Beans take hours to cook without even considering soaking time. Heck, it is still 20 minutes plus time to cook in a pressure cooker (I cook and freeze beans). Potatoes take a bit of time to get done: Bread takes hours to cook too. And that's after folks stand at a cash register for 8 hours while customers get angry at something outside of their control or some other physically active job. I enjoy cooking, and I do a lot of it. But I'm not working and I cook a lot less and easier stuff when I work. Of course people want easy things to eat. It makes time to enjoy a bit of day.

bluedino 3y ago
This is such a tired argument. Nobody said anything rich vs poor or employed people (who are the only people who own pots and pans) vs unemployed (who are the only people who have time to cook, apparently) You know beans come in cans, right? And you can buy already baked bread. It's convenience, again. We not only love ready made food so much well drastically overpay to have it delivered.
refurb 3y ago
You don't need anything that elaborate. I've been cooking since I first moved out in college. A hot plate, a single pot and a fridge does the job. Be efficient with your prep and you can prepare enough for 4-5 meals in a hour. The rest is leftovers.
Turing_Machine 3y ago
> You realistically need electricity and refrigeration I'm pretty sure people were cooking for quite some time before electricity and refrigeration came along. > Beans take hours to cook without even considering soaking time. You do understand that you don't actually have to stand over the pot the entire time they're cooking, right? And that crock pots are a thing that exists (and which can also be had very cheaply from thrift stores)? What you apparently think of as "cooking" is "making the latest frou-frou trendy recipe". Old-school peasant cooking (from any peasant society you care to name) is cheap, easy, and consumes very little time.
- deprecative 3y ago
  Standing over the pot is irrelevant. You still need the time to do it. The poorer you are, and that's more and more of us, the less time you have. The person working a standard 9-5 has just under 4 hours of available in their day. Poorer people have less.
  - Turing_Machine 3y ago
    > You still need the time to do it. You put the beans in a crockpot to soak overnight while you sleep, then turn it on when you go to work. There's no "time" involved. Maybe five minutes.

bluedino 3y ago

This is such a tired argument. Nobody said anything rich vs poor or employed people (who are the only people who own pots and pans) vs unemployed (who are the only people who have time to cook, apparently) You know beans come in cans, right? And you can buy already baked bread. It's convenience, again. We not only love ready made food so much well drastically overpay to have it delivered.

refurb 3y ago

You don't need anything that elaborate. I've been cooking since I first moved out in college. A hot plate, a single pot and a fridge does the job. Be efficient with your prep and you can prepare enough for 4-5 meals in a hour. The rest is leftovers.

Turing_Machine 3y ago

> You realistically need electricity and refrigeration I'm pretty sure people were cooking for quite some time before electricity and refrigeration came along. > Beans take hours to cook without even considering soaking time. You do understand that you don't actually have to stand over the pot the entire time they're cooking, right? And that crock pots are a thing that exists (and which can also be had very cheaply from thrift stores)? What you apparently think of as "cooking" is "making the latest frou-frou trendy recipe". Old-school peasant cooking (from any peasant society you care to name) is cheap, easy, and consumes very little time.

deprecative 3y ago
Standing over the pot is irrelevant. You still need the time to do it. The poorer you are, and that's more and more of us, the less time you have. The person working a standard 9-5 has just under 4 hours of available in their day. Poorer people have less.
- Turing_Machine 3y ago
  > You still need the time to do it. You put the beans in a crockpot to soak overnight while you sleep, then turn it on when you go to work. There's no "time" involved. Maybe five minutes.